I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.